Prof Geoffrey Crossick

Career: research fell Emmanuel Coll Cambridge 1970-73, lectr in economic and social history Univ of Hull 1973-78; Univ of Essex: lectr in history 1979-83, sr lectr then reader in history 1983-91, prof of history 1991-2002, pro-vice-chllr (academic devpt) 1997-2002; chief exec AHRB 2002-05, warden Goldsmiths Univ of London 2005-10, vice-chllr Univ of London 2010-12; memb: Advsy Cncl Br Library, Enterprise and Skills Ctee HEFCE, Governing Bd Courtauld Inst, Cncl Agence d'evaluation de la recherche et de l'enseignement superieur; tstee Nat Maritime Museum; Freeman Goldsmiths Co 2010; hon fell Emmanuel Coll Cambridge 2004; FRHistS 1986, FRSA 2009

Books and Publications: The Lower Middle Class in Britain 1870-1914 (ed, 1976), An Artisan Elite in Victorian Society (1978), Shopkeepers and Master Artisans in Nineteenth-Century Europe (ed with H G Haupt, 1984), The Petite Bourgeoisie in Europe 1780-1914 (with H G Haupt, 1995), The Artisan and the European Town (ed, 1997), Cathedrals of Consumption: The Department Store in European Society 1850-1940 (ed, 1999), Knowledge Transfer without Widgets: the Challenge of the Creative Economy (2007), The Future Is More Than Just Tomorrow: Higher Education, the Economy and the Longer-Term (2010)